Exploring the chemical composition of pelagic tar collected in the North Atlantic Ocean

Christopher M Reddy1, David L Valentine2, Christoph Aeppli3, Robert Swarthout4, Charles Sharpless5, Paul Joyce6, Audrey Wright Meyer6, Sarah Avison Fuller7, Kelsey Gosselin8 and Hilary Sophia Green9, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Science Department, Santa Barbara, United States, (3)Bigelow Lab for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States, (4)Appalachian State University, Environmental Science Program, Boone, NC, United States, (5)University of Mary Washington, Chemistry, Fredericksburg, VA, United States, (6)Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (7)URI GSO, Narragansett, RI, United States, (8)University of California Santa Barbara, Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science, Santa Barbara, United States, (9)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States